Begin Chapter

I wanted to ask you guys a very important question, as it will help determine the direction that Bardsworth moves in the future. It would help me greatly if you took the time to answer the poll, and if you’d like to leave further clarification in the comments, please do. So…

July 27th will be my last update until September. I came to this decision a while back for several reasons…

1.) It’s no secret that my life has been crazy of late, and that this has affected my update schedule on a regular basis. Things will only continue to be crazy throughout August, so it made sense to back off of the comic for a bit.

2.) I would like to use a chunk of time to work on the third Bardsworth book, and it seemed like a good idea that since I’m taking time off of the comic itself, I should use some of that time to hack away at the book.

3.) I’m going on a very, very, very much needed week-long vacation at the end of August and I didn’t want to stress myself out by trying to be on deadline while also trying to enjoy my time with my family.

Those of you who are patrons will still get updates of sorts. I will be posting the colored pages for the third book, as well as any new updates that I can get around to doing. This is, of course, in addition to regular Patreon rewards.

It’s been a while since I took a long hiatus like this, but I figure most people are pretty busy in the summer time, so it shouldn’t be that bad. If you really miss me, drop me a line. I’m always willing to chat with my loyal readers. Otherwise, I’ll see you in September!

It’s been a long time since I even really thought about doing a t-shirt. My t-shirts just don’t really sell, and I always end up with leftover merchandise. But I figured it doesn’t hurt to at least see if people would be interested in a new design. So I’m setting up a poll!

This t-shirt would be based on a wallpaper I did for my Patreon subscribers this past year (image below). I would probably remove the Francis horns from the top portion so that people who don’t know the comic wouldn’t be too confused. But otherwise, hypothetically, would you pre-order this t-shirt if I made it official?

(Note: If you voted on the Facebook page, please don’t vote again here.)

This past week has proven to me that my goal of catching up to my backlog of updates is probably not achievable under my current circumstances. I had every intention of putting out two pages, and instead I put out one very late one, due to a blizzard that lasted two days which kept me in a constant state of shoveling and looking after a kid who would have otherwise been in school (among a handful of other wonderful reasons).

So here’s the deal – I still owe one more bonus update that I missed, and I will try to get that out to you. But moving forward, I’m just going to jump back on doing my normal updates and chalk the ones I missed up to a loss. That way I don’t stress about it, and you get your regular updates back.

For my patrons, I am desperately going to get back on track with your rewards. I got the wallpaper done and I’ll be moving on to other stuff for the other levels this week… provided the universe doesn’t throw me any more curve balls.

You guys are the most patient and understanding readers a webcomic artist could ask for, so thank you for your loyalty through all of this. If I could bake cookies for you all, I would.